If you didn’t already know that the latest Fox “News” fake “outrage” about the jackass from the New Black Panther Party who was caught on video standing outside a Philadelphia polling place with a nightstick in 2008 was another predictably trumped-up Rightwing scam story, Jamison Foser will help you understand why that is.
But as with the phony ACORN “Pimp” Hoax, the most unsettling part of this latest scam is not just that Fox is promoting a phony story, round-the-clock, to rile up and scare their gullible viewers. That’s what they do. We all know that by now. Or should. What’s disturbing is that so-called Ombudsmen at major, theoretically non-wingnut “liberal media” outlets have yet to figure any of that out.
This time around, it’s Washington Post’s Ombudsman Andrew Alexander who takes the bait — hook, line, nightstick, and phony whistleblower — in support of his paper’s coverage of what they shamefully headlined as a “political bombshell.” Hoax Accomplished. Again.
Media Matters’ Simon Maloy predicted this story would play out in exactly this way back on July 2nd [emphasis ours]:
2. Fox News picks up bogus story, reports on it incessantly.
3. Right-wingers and Fox News start complaining that “liberal media” are ignoring bogus story.
4. Other outlets are shamed into covering bogus story, mini-frenzy ensues.
5. Pundits credit Fox News for “being ahead of the curve.”
6. Responsible media outlets determine bogus story is bogus long after damage is done.
7. Repeat.
See Foser for details, so we can go back to (hopefully) ignoring this ridiculous non-story.
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The New Black Panther Party strikes me as a false flag operation. That’s why no one in the black community pays any attention to them and Fox does.
Enter Shirley Sherrod, into the very same equation:
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/07/usda_appointee_forced_to_resign_after_discussing_r.php
I just came upon this website, and I will be returning from time to time to see what it has to say about other subjects;
however, I must say that I found this article to be extremely feeble and unconvincing. It asks the reader not to believe their lying eyes. Well, I’m not prepared to do that. If there is
such a thing as voter intimidation, this was it. Come to thi nk think of it, why should I come back? Presumably, this
article is a fair reflection of the quality and slant of the writer’s intellect..no, I won’t be coming back.
I hate to interrupt an orgy of indignant misdirection, but the video does prove voter intimidation under the statute, which is always a big deal, there were two assholes, not one (although the Justice Department inexplicably decided to ignore the others), and they represented an organization, however wacky. The Klu Klux Klan is wacky too. Efforts here and elsewhere to pretend that an obvious violation of an important law was whitewashed by some political hack who shouldn’t be messing with the justice system are, simply put, an embarrassment and a sad demonstration of lack of integrity. The Post ombudsman didn’t “fall” for anything. He’s being objective, and the handling of this incident was objectively suspect.
Jack Marshall said:
While the sentence above doesn’t make much sense (no matter how many times I re-read in hopes that it will), I’ll go ahead and presume that you are being critical of the Bush Administration, for deciding not to press criminal charges before they left office, right?
As to “some political hack who shouldn’t be messing with the justice system,” I’ve got no idea who or what you’re referring to. If you have any evidence of “some political hack,” — other than the Bush appointee Chris Adams, who now claims to be a “whistleblower”, though without any evidence of anything — “messing” with something, I hope you’ll feel free to let me know what that is.